Happenings: Dope claim, tech-savvy grandparents, wins and losses

Lu seems to have gotten over the loss yesterday after befriending a wombat

It was quite a devastating loss for Rendy Lu Yen-hsun yesterday. After bageled the 'injured' Gael Monfils in the third set, it seemed like Lu had the ticket to the third round in his bag. He also twice forced Monfils to hold to stay in the match. However, Monfils who double faulted 23 times converted his fourth match point to win in an ugly fashion.

Sexy Seppi

It wasn't an easy match for Italian Andreas Seppi either. After enduring a 4-hour long match against Denis Istomin, Seppi cooled down at the Garden Square fountain on-site at the Australian Open while doing an ATP photo shoot.

Stephens and her grandpa

Meanwhile, Sloane Stephens who is currently world no. 25 said the reason why she likes winning at the Australian Open is that her tech-savvy grandparents can keep watching her from the States.

"My grandpa texted me," the 19-year-old Stephens said. "He said they stayed up again to watch me 'on the machine' as my grandpa calls it."

Murray defends tennis over Rochus doping claim

On a more serious note, retired Belgian tennis player Christophe Rochus recently gave an interview to a newspaper in his home country claiming that doping was widespread on the ATP tour.

“There’s a lot of cheating,” he said. “Simply, people don’t like to talk about it. I simply would like to stop the pretending. This hypocrisy is exasperating.”

He suggested that the authorities might as well give up and legalise performance-enhancing drugs.

However Andy Murray hit back at Rochus doping claim.

"I would say that is far from the truth," said Murray. "Anyone can see the amount of hours of training and practice that go into what we do and there are other sports that are endurance-wise far more challenging than tennis."

"The guys can't play five or six hours and then come back the next day and run around like a rabbit.

"When guys play five or six hours in the slams, like we often do, we have a day's rest. I was told that after our match last year here, I was told that Novak, on the day off, didn't practice, didn't hit a ball, didn't get out of bed till three o'clock. Providing you put the work in, it doesn't mean it hurts any less when you have to play a couple of days later after a five-hour match, but I would not say it is impossible."

(Images via Rendy's FB Fanpage, ATP website, Sloane Stephen's Twitter page, Zimbio.com)

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun attends ORIS event in "Top Gun" look

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun is ORIS ambassador for the second year.

Last week he attended the launching of ORIS  Big Crown Flight Series all dressed up in a "Top Gun" look.

Rendy will be playing at the Olympics in less than 3 weeks. Four years ago in Beijing, Rendy nailed his biggest win against Wimbledon 2012 runner-up Andy Murray in the first round.

(Image via Rendy Lu's Facebook fan page)

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun attends oral defense for Master Degree at National Taiwan Normal University

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun's Wimbledon campaign was cut short recently but the Taiwanese player has a better long term plan.

Rendy recently attended an oral defense for his Master degree at the National Taiwan Normal University. It won't be long till we see him graduate.

(Images via Rendy Lu's Facebook fan page)

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun grocery shopping in London

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun was spotted grocery shopping in London ahead of the Wimbledon tournament.

Earlier on, he took a bus from Eastbourne to London after an early exit at the AEGON International, losing to Ryan Harrison in the second round.

The Taiwanese player is looking forward to a great run at Wimbledon this year. However he has to clear his first hurdle, Harrison in the first round at the SW19.

(Images via Rendy Lu's Facebook fan page)

Sharapova, Isner, Raonic, Lu: Walkabout in Paris

It's always nice to see players outside the tennis courts.

Let's take a look at what some of the players do when they are not playing or practicing.

Maria Sharapova wears sweatpants and tennis shoes as she arrives back to the Park Hyatt Paris-Vendome hotel.

John Isner enjoys a day off with a visit to the Eiffel Tower.

Milos Raonic found the Canadian consulate in Paris.

 

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun was at the Japanese street in Paris.

(Images via Facebook pages, Zimbio.com)

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun visits Adidas boutique at Roland Garros

Clay court may not be Rendy Lu Yen-hsun's favourite surface but it doesn't mean that he will take the tournament lightly.

Always known as a hard working player, Rendy is looking set to face off with his opponent in the first around against Frenchman Jeremy Chardy.

He posted quite a number of pictures on his Facebook fan page including a recent visit to the Adidas boutique at Roland Garros.

According to the post, the Adidas team has their own suite at the hotel where all their sponsored players will be there to pick up their gears. Usually the players will walk away with at least 2 bags of Adidas stuff.

(Images via Yen-hsun Lu's Facebook Fan Page)

Rendy Lu sweeps Taiwanese star Rainie Yang off her feet

Recently Rendy Lu Yen-hsun made an appearance in an Adidas event together with Taiwanese actress/singer Rainie Yang.

Not only that they had an aerobic session together (check out the youtube video at the bottom of this post) on stage but they also challenged each other on bikes.

In an interview after the event, Yang expressed her excitement on meeting Rendy for the first time. Maybe it has something to do with Rendy's aura or his new Korean look.

(Images via Rainie Yang's Blog)

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Lunar New Year greetings from Rendy Lu Yen-hsun

I received a Lunar New Year greeting card yesterday and it's from Rendy Lu Yen-hsun!

Thanks to Thomas Lu and his management for sending this special card to me. It's beautiful and very meaningful indeed.

Here's a closer look at the card...

The front cover of the card with wishes in multi languages.

The content inside with Rendy's autograph and wishes in English and Mandarin.

Let's zoom in for a clearer look...

Hope Rendy will have a spectacular achievement in the year of Rabbit!

(Images by HSFoo/HCFoo's Tennis Blog)

Players' arrival photos in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur

As a big tennis fan and tennis mamarazzi, nothing beats welcoming my favourite players at the airport with a bunch of flowers :D

Unlike last year, this time I only got to know Rendy Lu Yen-hsun's flight schedule. Rendy arrived together with his mom, brother and his team.

Meanwhile in Bangkok, the organiser sent me some arrival photos of their star players - Juan Martin Del Potro, Ernests Gulbis, Fernando Verdasco and Jurgen Melzer (in sequence).

Yay, Del Potro is back in tournament!

(Images via PTT Thailand Open 2010, HSFoo of HCFoo's Tennis Blog)

2010 Malaysian Open Tennis Tournament

We're just 1.5 months away from the 2010 Malaysian Open Tennis Tournament!


I was at the press conference recently to witness the launching and players announcement.



So far Robin Soderling, Nikolay Davydenko, Tomas Berdych, David Ferrer, Mikhail Youzhny, Nicolas Almagro, Marcos Baghdatis, Lleyton Hewitt and Rendy Lu Yen-Hsun are the confirmed line-up who will headline the USD947,750 prize money tournament.

I've uploaded the players message video which features Baghdatis, Youzhny, Soderling and Ferrer.

The ATP 250 tournament is scheduled to take place from September 25 to October 3, at Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil.

Tournament director Nick Freyer makes a brief intro of Rendy.

I'm looking forward to meeting Rendy Lu again.


Together with some fans, we're planning to make a banner to welcome him when he arrives in Malaysia and of course to support him throughout this tournament.


The line-up are strong but who knows he will grab his first ATP 250 title here ;-) Drop me an email if you're interested to join us!

With Lina Teoh the emcee of the Malaysian Open. She's a reason not to miss the tournament.

Giant sized buntings at the presser.

To purchase your tickets soon you can get it from Ticketpro's website:
http://www.ticketpro.com.my/jnp/sports/tennis/435460-atp-2010.html


Here's the official website of the tournament: http://www.malaysianopentennis.com/2010/



(Photos credit to HSFoo of hcfoo.com)

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Rendy Lu Yen-hsun poses for GQ magazine

Check out these hot photos of Rendy Lu Yen-hsun in the August issue of the Taiwanese GQ magazine.

He looks rather delicious, isn't he?


I'll be posting more updates over the weekend especially on the Malaysian Open and Thailand Open, which I'm not able to do so over the past couple of weeks. Thank you for your patience.


(Via GQ,.com.tw)


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Rendy Lu Yen-hsun drives home Saab-sponsored luxury car

2010 Wimbledon quarterfinalist Rendy Lu Yen-hsun officially drove home his Saab 9-3 2.0 Turbo SportCombi on Friday.

The key acceptance ceremony was also attended by Rendy's mother.

However, the Saab ambassador didn't have the time to use the car as he had to fly to Frankfurt, Germany yesterday for training in his preparation for the US hard court season.

(Via Rendy Lu's Facebook Fanpage; Images by Thomas Lu via Esther Chiam)

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun moves up to no. 42, signs Saab

Rendy Lu Yen-hsun's breakthrough performance at Wimbledon has sent his ranking to a career high and open up to new sponsorship opportunities recently.

In the latest ATP rankings released on Monday, Rendy jumped 40 spots to no. 42 after becoming the first Taiwanese player and the first Asian since Shuzo Matsuoka in 1995 to make it into a quarterfinals in a grand slam tournament.

Rendy was greeted with a heroic welcome when he was back in Taipei City last week.

In the last weekend, he has offered his appreciation to sponsors including Adidas and CPC Corp., Taiwan's largest oil refiner.

On Monday, Saab, a leading automobile company signed Rendy and offered him a sponsorship deal that worth NT$3 million in cash.

A SAAB 93SportCombi 2.0t Linear worth NT$1.78 million was also given to Rendy as part of the deal.

Rendy also made a TV appearance on a TVBS channel talk show. The 1-hour interview will be shown this coming Sunday on July 11, 2010 at 8PM.

Now I'm looking forward to the day when I see him on CNN's TalkAsia :D

(Images via focustaiwan, sina news, udn.com, saabsunited.com)